skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from vivekkachhadiyatech/skills. It costs 1,698 tokens per session, scanned C, original, MIT.

A set of coding rules for maintaining the agent-rules-kit project, a command-line tool and template collection for setting up Cursor rules. The rules emphasize thinking first, keeping changes simple, editing only what is needed, and checking the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for any task in this repository, including changing the command-line tool, updating rule templates or configuration, preparing releases, and writing project files in English.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a consistent way to handle uncertainty, avoid unnecessary code, limit unrelated edits, and verify that a task is complete.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is vivekkachhadiyatech/skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything skills configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to vivekkachhadiyatech/skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vivekkachhadiyatech/skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vivekkachhadiyatech/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01698 $0.01698
Opus 5 $0.00849 $0.00849
Sonnet 5 $0.00340 $0.00340
Haiku 4.5 $0.00170 $0.00170

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7d1015334310, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

skills CLAUDE.md scanned grade C with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

Stop and confirm before anything hard to undo or visible outside the repo: `rm -rf`,
CLAUDE.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Rules (master)

The single, tool-neutral source of truth for agent behavior in this repo. The installer links it to each tool's rules file — CLAUDE.md (Claude Code), AGENTS.md (Codex, Cursor, Antigravity) — so you edit this file and every tool sees the change. They apply to every task unless explicitly overridden.

Bias: caution over speed on non-trivial work. Use judgment on trivial tasks.

Rule 1 — Think Before Coding

State assumptions explicitly. If uncertain, ask rather than guess. Present multiple interpretations when ambiguity exists. Push back when a simpler approach exists. Stop when confused. Name what's unclear.

Rule 2 — Simplicity First

Minimum code that solves the problem. Nothing speculative. No features beyond what was asked. No abstractions for single-use code. Test: would a senior engineer say this is overcomplicated? If yes, simplify.

Rule 3 — Surgical Changes

Touch only what you must. Clean up only your own mess. Don't "improve" adjacent code, comments, or formatting. Don't refactor what isn't broken. Match existing style.

Rule 4 — Goal-Driven Execution

Define success criteria. Loop until verified. Don't follow steps. Define success and iterate. Strong success criteria let you loop independently.

Rule 5 — Reserve model reasoning for judgment calls

Use model reasoning for judgment: classification, drafting, summarization, extraction. Don't use it for routing, retries, or deterministic transforms. If code can answer deterministically, write code — code answers.

Rule 6 — Bounded effort: checkpoint, don't grind

Hard token/cost limits are the platform's job and vary by tool — don't try to meter your own token usage; you can't observe it reliably, so don't pretend to. Your duty is to notice when a task is ballooning and surface it instead of grinding silently. Signals you can observe: re-reading the same files without progress, many tool calls without converging, scope creeping past the original ask, or losing the thread. When you see them: summarize what's done / verified / left (Rule 10), then checkpoint or ask. If context is running low, write a continuation handoff (Rule 16). Never silently overrun — surface it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 135 lines · 1,698 tokens per session scan C 7d1015334310

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skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository vivekkachhadiyatech/skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,698 tokens to every session, about $0.0085 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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